Police recover guns, ammunition inside secondary school ceiling in Kogi

By The Citizen

Kogi State Police Command said it has recovered some arms and ammunition from a secondary school, in Adavi Local Government area of the State.

The State Commissioner of Police, Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi who disclosed this to newsmen yesterday while briefing on the effort of the command in the past months said the guns and other weapons were hidden inside the ceiling of one of the classrooms of the secondary school.

He said the police were able to recover the weapons after a tip-off from an informant who revealed that some hoodlums have been visiting the school for a while and planing to foment trouble during the last election in the State.

Ogunjemilusi revealed that the police were stunned to find out that two AK47 rifles, 4000 rou0nds of live ammunition, cutlasses, charms and other dangerous weapon were hidden inside classroom ceiling.

The command also paraded 30 suspects who were arrested for different offences of kidnapping, armed-robbery, culpable homicide amidst other crimes.

He stated that the command also recovered three stolen vehicles, three AK 47 rifles, six locally made pistols, cartridges, IED explosives and detonators, cutlasses, ammunition, charms from the suspects as well as the rescue of seven kidnapped victims.